Tracy Turnblad and Frederick Douglass

I’m not sure how this Frederick Douglass quote ended up on a piece of paper hanging in my home, but it’s informed my politics for a long time:

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.